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The award will be presented on Sunday, March 8, at 12:00 noon, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, during the Gala held to commemorate International Women's Day.

It is being held to mark International Women's Day and will take place on March 5th, at 7pm, at the Torrevieja Casino

The Women's Day Gala will take place on March 8th, at 12:00 noon, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center

The Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of Equality and Women headed by Inmaculada Montesinos, joins the events of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is commemorated on November 25.

It has received an investment of 1,350,000 euros, in a collaboration between the Valencian Regional Government, the Torrevieja City Council and the ADIEM Foundation. The mayor has announced that in 2026, alongside these new facilities, construction will begin on a residence for people with extreme support needs.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, reports that the Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of NGOs and Volunteering, and once the bidding process has concluded, has provisionally awarded the contract to the company Francisco M. Juárez Pozuelo for the drafting of the basic and execution project, the health and safety plan and the waste management plan for the construction of the new Day Centre for people with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases "Tomás Ballester Herrera".

The University of Alicante (UA), as part of the events commemorating Torrevieja Pride 2025, held the talk "Between nits and Merlins: a tour of LGBTQ+ characters on television" yesterday afternoon, Sunday, July 6, at the Torrevieja Casino. It was given by Toni Maestre-Brotons, a professor at the UA.

The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 8, at 12:00 noon, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, at the Gala held on the occasion of International Women's Day.

In this way, the center will be used as a family meeting point, a residence for people with functional diversity and a residence for functional diversity for children and adolescents.

The Department of Fiestas, the Department of Gender Policies and LGTBIQ+ and the "Torrevieja Diversa" association present the events on the occasion of the celebration of Pride 2023, which will take place from June 28 to July 9 in Torrevieja.

The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers of the Torrevieja City Council, Concha Sala, informs of the start of the “Healthy Smiles” campaign, which is being launched by the Association of Families to Help Saharawi Children (FANS) in collaboration with this council. The objective of the campaign is to send dental hygiene products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, to the Saharawi refugee camps.

The Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja, Tomás Ballester, accompanied by the director of the social consulting firm EQUÀLITAT, participació i Igualtat, José Luis Sahuquillo, have presented the campaign to raise awareness and prevent chemical submission among the youth population that is It will take place on August 26 and 27, and on September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 23, at night from 00:00 to 03:00.

AGAMED launched an initiative at the end of last year to help the most vulnerable groups and promote sustainability among citizens. Thus, it promised to donate 1 euro for each customer who requested the digital invoice. This month has concluded this campaign in which more than €2,000 have been raised that will go to the local NGO Solidarity Food.

In a meeting held this Thursday morning at the Torrevieja Town Hall, chaired by the mayor of the city, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality, Tomás Ballester, the last two winners, Encarnación Rebollo and María Teresa Sáez, the journalist Melania Sala on behalf of the local media, as well as Josefina Nieto as a representative of the cultural field and Antonia Albentosa, a housewife, acting as secretary María Isabel García, proceeded to the election of the MUJER awards 2022 on the occasion of the celebration next Sunday, March 8, of "International Women's Day". After reading all the proposals received by the Department of Social Welfare and Equality, it has been decided unanimously:

Representatives of 22 local NGOs have participated in a meeting convened by the Torrevieja City Council to coordinate the reception of humanitarian aid that is going to be sent to the Ukrainian people, who are suffering from the current armed conflict. The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, together with the councilors of International Residents, Gitte Lund; of Citizen Participation, Inmaculada Montesinos and Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, has announced that the City Council is going to provide a place in which the arrival of all the material that is delivered for this purpose will be centralized and that it will be attended by volunteers from the different NGOs ´s of Torrevieja.